27 Quotes About Miracles

"Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature."

C.S. Lewis

Topics: Miracles, Nature

"It is not the objective proof of God's existence that we want but the experience of God's presence. That is the miracle we are really after, and that is also, I think, the miracle that we really get."

- Frederick Buechner

Topics: Miracles, Theology

"Catching the apple doesn't overturn the law of gravity or the formulation of a new law. It's merely an intervention of a person with freewill who overrides the natural causes operative in that particular circumstance. And that is, essentially, is what God does when he causes a miracle to occur."

- William Lane Craig

Topics: Miracles

"We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too."

- John Calvin

Topics: Miracles, Satan

"God's miracles are to be found in nature itself; the wind and waves, the wood that becomes a tree - all of these are explained biologically, but behind them is the hand of God."

- Ronald Reagan

Topics: Miracles, Nature

"Prayer is often a temptation to bank on a miracle of God instead of on a moral issue, i.e., it is much easier to ask God to do my work than it is to do it myself. Until we are disciplined properly, we will always be inclined to bank on God's miracles and refuse to do the moral thing ourselves. It is our job, and it will never be done unless we do it."

- Oswald Chambers

Topics: Prayer, Miracles, Morality

"We are the miracle of miracles, the great inscrutable mystery of God."

- Thomas Carlyle

Topics: Miracles

"I never have any difficulty believing in miracles, since I experienced the miracle of a change in my own heart."

- Augustine

Topics: Miracles, The Heart

"I have learned to use the word "impossible" with the greatest caution."

- Assorted Authors

Topics: Miracles

"The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it."

- G.K. Chesterton

Topics: Miracles

"Miracles are the swaddling clothes of infant churches."

- Thomas Fuller

Topics: Miracles, Church

"Christ's miracles were not the suspension of the natural order but the restoration of the natural order. They were a reminder of what once was prior to the fall and a preview of what will eventually be a universal reality once again--a world of peace and justice, without death, disease, or conflict."

- Tim Keller

Topics: miracles

"Prophecy and miracles argue the imperfection of the state of the church, rather than its perfection. For they are means designed by God as a stay or support, or as a leading string to the church in its infancy, rather than as means adapted to it in its full growth."

- Jonathan Edwards

Topics: Prophecy, Miracles

"There's hope--a miracle happened to me."

- Duane Chapman

Topics: Hope, Miracles

"When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another."